This museum houses a very varied collection ranging from iron and steel production, through washing machines, early computers, telephones, vintage cars and the space age - plus a few aviation exhibits.
Pictured below is the fuselage of a Polish AF TS-9 Junak 3 trainer belived to be c/n 94-036. The Junak 3 was a fixed tricycle undercarriage re-design of the earlier LWD Junak 2 - the design was created by Tadeusz Soltyk ( of TS-8 Bies and TS-11 Iskra fame ).
The type first flew in August 1953, and 146 aircraft were built at the Okecie factory in Warsaw between 1953 and 1956. The type was withdrawn from the Polish AF during 1961 being replaced by the far more modern and powerful TS-8 Bies design.
There are very few examples of the Junak 3 remaining today - I am aware of two other examples, one being on the gate at Deblin airbase but this is is very poor condition. The excellent aviation museum at Krakow has an example in very good condition.
Next to the Junak 3 at the Muzeum Techniki is a silver Bensen autogyro ( quoted as c/n 5 ) - can anyone tell me when and how this came to Poland ?
Also hanging from the ceiling is a Demoiselle replica built by Pawel Zolotov - I'm not sure if this ever flew or is only a static replica - if you know more please let me know - thanks.
Nearby is a Soviet built Mig 15 "Link trainer" type - it is a training simulator from the 1950s and is painted silver - it does have an external build plate showing a 4 digit serial number but I failed to write this down.
Many thanks go to Tony Morris ( Polish aviation historian ) and the Bob Ogden aviation museum guide books for some of this information.
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